"apple Trees And Harvests In Nesles" Oil On Cardboard By Raymond Tournon 20th Century

"Apple Trees and Harvests in Nesles 1935" Oil painting on cardboard by Raymond Tournon. Raymond Tournon known as the son, born in Bois-Colombes on March 13, 1901 and died in Bayeux on September 10, 1975, is a French painter and cinema decorator. Second son of the painter and poster artist Raymond Tournon from Gaillac in the Tarn and the portraitist Éléonore Marche. After his studies in Gaillac, Raymond Tournon studied in Paris at the École des Gobelins, spent time at the École des Arts décoratifs in Nice, then joined the École des beaux-arts in Paris. A theater decorator in 1918, he lost his father the following year to the Spanish flu in Villefranche-sur-Mer. In the Montparnasse district, he became friends with Léonard Foujita, Chaïm Soutine, and Paul Poiret. He married in 1932 and became a film set designer. In 1940, he left Paris to join his wife and their daughter Marie-Josèphe in Gaillac where they remained until the Liberation, then returning to Bois-Colombes. On the back of the panel, part of a label specifies the title "Pommiers et Moissons Nesles". This reference to an exhibition is confirmed by another label "2" on the front. Dimensions: 54.4 x 38 cm